The Humanist Center

2001-2007


Organized by:

First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis

Humanists of Minnesota

The Humanist Institute

At the First Unitarian Society

900 Mt. Curve, Minneapolis

 


June 3, 2007 - Varieties of Humanism

Robert B. Tapp,   Professor Emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota


May 13, 2007 - Technology, (Im)mortality, and the Rhetoric of "Choice"

Barbara Koenig,  Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, College of Medicine and Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota


November 19, 2006 - The Future of Humanism

John Cummins,  Minister (Emeritus), First Universalist Church, Minneapolis


October 15, 2006 - Godless Morality:  Does It Make Sense?

Fred Edwords, Director of Communications, American Humanist Association


September 24, 2006 - Origins of Humanism: The Dietrich Era

Kendyl Gibbons,  Sr. Minister, First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis; Co-Dean, Humanist Institute


June 4, 2006 - Buddhisms – nontheist Yes; humanist No

Robert B. Tapp, professor emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota


May 7, 2006 - Life Long Learning

Steven Benson, Executive Director, Osher Life Long Learning, University of Minnesota


April 9, 2006 - The Coming Storm – The Rise of American Fascism

Khoren Arisian, Senior Leader emeritus, New York Ethical Society


December 4, 2005 - Human Sexuality is Humanistic

Peter D’Ascoli, Fellow of the America College of Obstetrics and Gynecology


November 6, 2005 - Arts and Ethics

Gayle Graham Yates, professor emerita of America Studies, University of Minnesota


June 5, 2005 - How Pluralistic Should Humanism Be?

Robert B. Tapp, professor emeritus of Humanities, Religious Studies, South Asian Studies, University of Minnesota


May 1, 2005 - Is the American Humanist Association a Religious Humanist Organization? What Does the Humanist Manifesto III Mean?

Mel Lipman, President, American Humanist Association


December 5, 2004 - A Humanist Looks as the Holidays

Kendyl Gibbons, Senior Minister, First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis


November 14, 2004 - What in God's Name has Happened to Humanism?

Sarah Oelberg, Vice-President, HUUmanists


October 10, 2004 - Evolutionary Ethics

Andreas Rosenberg, professor emeritus of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota


September 12, 2004 - The Role and Status of Humanism in the UUA

William Sinkford, President, Unitarian Universalist Association


May 2, 2004 - Why Humanism Must Be Secular

Tom Flynn, Associate Director, Council for Secular Humanism


April 4, 2004 - Making our Society More Fit for Humans

Anita M. Pampusch, President, The Bush Foundation


March 7, 2004 - Prospects for Religious Humanism

Roger A. Brewin, editor, Religious Humanism


December 7, 2003 - The Importance of Public Education as a Cultural Imperative in a Democratic Society

Richard D. Nunneley, Principal, Nova Charter School, St. Paul


November 2, 2003 - Humanist Judaism

Harold Londer, Co-founder and spiritual leader, Congregation Or Emet of Minnesota


October 12, 2003 - The Role of the Humanities in Humanizing Humans

Stanley Romanstein, President, the Minnesota Humanities Commission


May 4, 2003 - Dangerous Ideas and Religious Meaning; Evolutionary Psychology and Humanism

Michael Werner: Sales and marketing, hi-tech adhesives; former president, American Humanist Association


April 6, 2003 - New Evidence on the Historicity of Jesus

Gerald M. Erickson, professor emeritus of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota


March 2, 2003 - Humanism and Social Justice

Wendy Jerome-Stern: Minister, Wayzata Unitarian Universalist Church


December 2, 2002 - What Happened to Humanism?

Sarah Oelberg; Minister, Hanska & Mankato Unitarian Universalist Churches


November 3, 2002 - Longing to Die: A Humanist Critique of Eschatology and Christian Fundamentalism

Anthony Pinn, Professor of Religious Studies, Macalester College


October 6, 2002 - If Humanism Is So Right, Why Are We So Few?

Andreas Rosenberg: professor emeritus of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, University of Minnesota


April 28, 2002 - Can Humanism Become the Global Ethic for the New Millennium?

Khoren Arisian, Senior Leader, New York Ethical Society


April. 7, 2002 - Liberal Christianity and Humanism: Past and Future Relationships

Rev. James Gertmenian, Senior Minister, Plymouth Congregational Church, Mpls and Prof. (ret.) Robert Tapp, Religious Studies, University of Minnesota


March 3, 2002 - Determining the "Truths" about Jesus

Prof. Philip Sellew, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota


December 2, 2001 - Life Without Father: Humanism as Sustenance and Good News

Rev. Kendyl Gibbons, Minister, First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis


November 4, 2001 - Is There Such a Thing as Christian Humanism?

Rev. Kevin McDonough, Vicar General, Archdiocese of St. Paul and Mpls.


October 7, 2001 - Warming the Cold Corpse: Toward a Humble and Humane Humanism

Rev. Victoria Safford, Minister, White Bear Unitarian Universalist Church


 

 


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